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Born in Darlington and based in Newcastle, Jo Clement is a working-class poet and interdisciplinary maker of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller ethnicity. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northumbria University and a Northern Writers' Award winner (New Writing North). From 2022-2024 Jo was a Poetry Book Society selector.
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Shortlisted for the John Pollard International and longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prizes, her highly acclaimed first poetry collection, Outlandish, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2022.
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